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Admission; approach; access. [R.] Yourself and yours shall have Free adit. Tennyson.

To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.

r added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it. Learning is but an adjunct to our self. Shak.

The court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses.

Wonder; astonishment. [Obs.] Season your admiration for a while. Shak.

A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence.

of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

To beautify; to dandify. I employed three good hours at least in adjusting and adonozing myself. Smollett.

quality of being adroit; skill and readiness; dexterity. Adroitness was as requisite as courage. Motley.

e; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc. The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words. Spectator.

A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.

Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal. When any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith.

The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.

enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. The advantages of a close alliance. Macaulay.

The period including the four Sundays before Christmas. Advent Sunday (Eccl.), the first Sunday in the season of Advent, being always the nearest Sunday to the feast of St. Andrew (Now. 30). Shipley.

Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song.

another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.

The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court. Bell.

A plant growing entirely in the air, and receiving its nourishment from it; an air plant or epiphyte.

The quality of being affable; readiness to converse; courteousness in receiving others and in conversation; complaisant behavior. Affability is of a wonderful efficacy or power in procuring love. Elyot